Lionel Blue
Lionel Blue
Lionel Blueis a British Reform rabbi, journalist and broadcaster. He was the first British rabbi publicly to declare his homosexuality...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth6 February 1930
judaism infant versions
I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.
old-friends irreplaceable dies
Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.
discrimination insult luther
Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.
lovers devotee
For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.
saws idolatry stalinism
Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.
jew
Jews are just like everyone else, only more so.
jew comfortable
I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew.
oxford quaker
I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.
christmas christian jesus
The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians.
though
I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much.
Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me.